ADVERTISING FEATURE By PIER Marketing At PIER, we often refer to websites as the “nerve centre” of your marketing activity: it’s the place where customers and potential customers find you, learn about you, form impressions, purchase products, make bookings and plenty more. With your website playing such a huge role in your business, it’s essential…
Thermal energy storage company MGA Thermal has been awarded backing worth approximately $560,000 through Shell’s accelerator program, which the startup says will step up completion of a pilot project. MGA’s pilot is located at its factory in Tomago, NSW, has a budget of $3 million, and aims to gather data on “and provide a tangible…
Austrian-headquartered refractory materials maker RHI Magnesita will become both a shareholder in and the first commercial customer of Canberra-based carbon capture and storage startup MCi Carbon. RHI leads the world in manufacture of refractory materials, used in high-temperature industrial processes. The size of their investment was not given. According to a statement from MCi, RHI will…
The Tasmanian government is inviting applications for grants worth up to $100,000 under the fourth round of the Advanced Manufacturing Accelerating Growth Grant program. The program supports investment by the state’s manufacturers “to purchase capital equipment, linked to an off island market driven expansion opportunity with resulting increased employment.” The first three rounds have awarded…
A federal parliamentary inquiry into manufacturing has begun its work, and is accepting written submissions until the end of next month. The “Developing Advanced Manufacturing in Australia” inquiry by the House Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Resources cited an aim of “supporting Australian industry, creating jobs and reviving our ability to make world class…
By Ravi Naidu, University of Newcastle They stop your food from sticking to the pan. They prevent stains in clothes and carpets. They help firefighting foam to extinguish fires. But the very thing that makes “forever chemicals” so useful also makes them dangerous. Forever chemicals – the catchier name for the class of chemicals known…
Queensland govt welcomes applications for Manufacturing Hubs Grant Program This week Queensland manufacturing minister Glenn Butcher announced that the state government’s Manufacturing Hubs Grant Program (MHGP) is open for a third round. The announcement was hosted this week at Mecha, a winner of $230,000 in grant support under the program’s first round, supporting a new…
Researchers from RMIT University have developed a method of creating hydrogen directly from seawater, which is the subject of a provisional patent and a new article in the journal Small. According to a statement from the university on Tuesday, lab-scale tests have shown the process creates no carbon dioxide and no chlorine, the latter of…
CNC Design commissions super-sized printer for Zone RV CNC Design announced on Monday that it had “just commissioned one of our VSF composite 3D printer[s]” for caravan company ZONE RV. The investment in a giant cell — capable of 3D printing and five-axis machining parts up to 22m x 5m x 1.6m — was announced…
Graphene Manufacturing Group has announced “full and final approval” of its products under the Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme (AICIS), an agency within the federal department of health, allowing for a significant increase in production. The Brisbane-based and Toronto-listed company said on Monday that the approval covered coatings, automotive lubricants and the company’s graphene aluminium-ion…
